Re: Jinxed VAIO wreckage - current state of affairs

From: Thomas Gleixner
Date: Sat Jun 16 2007 - 02:53:42 EST


On Sat, 2007-06-16 at 08:47 +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-06-15 at 23:31 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > >
> > > http://www.tglx.de/projects/hrtimers/2.6.22-rc4/patch-2.6.22-rc4-hrt10.patch
> > >
> >
> > That suspends and resumes OK.
> >
> > What was the bug?
>
> A stupid state check, which prevented the PIT to be setup again. So the
> box got stuck waiting for a timer to expire.
>
> Still I can not explain, why this resulted in this strange "disappear in
> the return instruction" behavior.

I put up a fixed patch series against rc4-mm to:

http://www.tglx.de/projects/hrtimers/2.6.22-rc4-mm2/patch-2.6.22-rc4-mm2-hrt3.patches.tar.bz2

tglx


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